Introducing Brew Logs

May 23rd, 2013, by Kyle (Backend Dev)

Get Your Brew On

Brew logs provide a convenient place to record your brew day notes and measurements. Brew logs are attached to recipes and you can create as many as you like.

Brewed someone else’s recipe? No problem! You can even create brew logs for recipes you don’t own.

And this is just the start. In the coming weeks, we plan to add a ton of additional features and functionality.

Dashboard

The dashboard has also received a major overhaul. You can now see all of your activity for the last 30 days, as well as your most recent brew logs.

Mobile Friendly

As a part of our ongoing effort to provide a first-class user experience on mobile devices, we’ve updated the recipe filters to work on phones and tablets as well as on desktop and laptop computers.

Improved Navigation

The site navigation has also been updated to make the most frequently accessed parts of the site only a click away.

Cheers!

Comments

Bottineau Brewing

posted 1909 days ago

You guys rock!

jasper davis

posted 1908 days ago

This is sure an excellent resource,look forward to adding to and using this new tool. Congrats from east Tennessee.

Jeremiah (newengland72 & NewEngland72)

posted 1908 days ago

Is there any way to delete a Brew Log. I started to make a batch, then did not complete it and would like to delete the Brew Log that i made for it.

Kyle (Backend Dev)

posted 1908 days ago

Yep! Just visit your dashboard and you’ll see your brew logs listed below your activity. If you click “view” next to the brew log you want to delete, you’ll be taken to a page with a “Delete Brew Log” button. Cheers!

2beta

posted 1906 days ago

Hi,
Thank you for the brew logs.

Is there a way to add sugar for carbonation (when bottling)?
There is sugar in fermentables but it’s not the same. I add sugar after the end of the fermentation (when FG is reached).

I don’t know if it’s better in the receipe or in brew logs. But it would be very usefull for me

Kyle (Backend Dev)

posted 1906 days ago

Type and amount of priming sugar will land in next version of brew logs, and we’ll certainly add your other ideas to our list of requested features. Can you elaborate on what you mean by % of alcohol added? Are you talking about adding a few oz of infused vodka or something? Cheers!

2beta

posted 1906 days ago

Hi,
No. I just mean sugar give you alcool, but how much?
I just would like know the final % of alcool (Malt fermentation + sugar).

Kyle (Backend Dev)

posted 1905 days ago

Ahh, this is already supported (sort of). We calculate ABV based on OG and FG, but currently priming sugar is not included in this calculation. Great suggestion!

Pete

posted 1905 days ago

Great new site, though I’m still getting used to the transition from hopville. A couple of features that would greatly improve my user experience:
– I’d like to have the ability to sort my recipes by brew date.
– Perhaps add a “user settings” page where you can choose what columns show up in the recipes page and/or click the top of each column to sort ascending or descending. All the processing could be done client-side so there would be no extra load on the server.

Pete

Kyle (Backend Dev)

posted 1905 days ago

Thanks so much! If you go to your dashboard, your recent brew logs should be sorted by brew date. The whole “your recipes” page needs a bit of a refresh. We have a lot of ideas as to how to make this page more useful. We’ll be sure to add yours to the list. Cheers!

Pete

posted 1905 days ago

Brew date can’t be in the future!!! Please change that so I can keep track of upcoming brews.

Kyle (Backend Dev)

posted 1905 days ago

We plan on lifting this restriction once there’s a point to it. Right now, creating a brew log for a future brew day wouldn’t have much utility. There isn’t anything in there that you could use prior to your brew day. We plan to add some “brew calendar” functionality in a future release, but it won’t be in the form of a brew log with no data except for a brew date. Brew logs are, by definition, artifacts created on the brew day and then updated throughout fermentation, aging, and (most importantly) tasting. Cheers!

Peter

posted 1903 days ago

Sounds very Joseph Heller… We plan on allowing brew dates in the future as soon as we implement a feature that will render that functionality unnecessary!!!

Kyle (Backend Dev)

posted 1903 days ago

Ha! Touché.

I’ll elaborate as it’s actually a bit more complex than it sounds. Right now, Brewtoad uses the presence of a brew log as a signal that says “this recipe has been brewed.” Recipes with brew logs get a bump when they are ranked, and there may be some edge cases with the way we do the activity stream that would pop up if we started creating activities in the future.

So, it’s not that we couldn’t just rip out that validation, but there would be some side-effects that we’d have to address, and we feel our time is better spent elsewhere.

We do, however, have plans to build out a “brewing calendar” which will display your past and scheduled (future) brew dates. Your past brew dates would link to their brew logs, but your scheduled brew dates won’t (because you haven’t brewed them yet).

For now, I’ve just been putting a little brewing schedule in my profile description. It isn’t ideal, for me at least, it’s an acceptable alternative until the brewing calendar is ready.

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